Buggy-top side light



No. 607,705. Patented July 19, I898. a. 1. [IUINSLER & a. w. McNEAR.

1 BUGGY TOP SIDE LIGHT.

(Application filed May 14, 1898.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

GEORGE J. QUINSLER, OF BROOKLINE, 'AND GEORGE WV. MQNEAR, OF

AUBURNDALE, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUGGY-TOP SIDE LIGHT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 607,705, dated July 19, 1898.

Application filed May 14, 1898. Serial No. 680,726. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE J. QUINSLER, residing at Brookline, in the county of Norfolk, and GEORGE WV. MONEAR, residing at Auburndale, in the county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, citizens of the United States, have invented new and useful Improvements in Buggy-Top Side Lights, of

- which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in buggy-top side lights; and the object of the invention is to obtain an increased side light or lookout as compared with those now in use, and it is carried out as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which represents a side elevation of the invention as applied to a buggy or carriage top, part of the said top or hood being shown as removed for the better illustration of the invention.

In the drawing, A represents the body of a buggy or carriage, on which E is the seat portion, as usual.

C C O" G O represent the bows to which the flexible folding top or hood D is secured, said bows being pivoted in their lower ends at E to the arm-piece b of the seat, as shown.

The bows O O O" O O, pivoted, as shown, at their lower ends at E, together with the flexible covering,provide a foldingtop or hood D, the bow 0 being adapted to be folded upon the bow O and both of said bows O and 0 adapted to be folded upon the bow C. The bows 0, O and O are not relatively movable. The top or hood thus constructed is adapted to be folded back on the pivotal point E, as will be readily understood.

One of the bows, the one marked 0 in the drawing, is dividedthat is, a portion of said bow is cut away, as shown-and to it is attached a window-frame F, preferably made of wood and having its sides preferably attached in a suitable manner to the bows O and O as shown. The frame F is secured to the divided bow O by screws, nails, or other suitable fastenings, and also to the bows C and O in a similar manner.

G is a transparent glass or side light secured to the frame F. Heretofore in bugg T or carriage tops the side light has been arranged in the side of the top or hood between two of the bows, by which arrangement such side light had to be made comparatively small, its size being limited to the space between two of the bows in the top or hood of the buggy or carriage.

By our invention we are enabled to make the side light of increased size, about twice as large as the ordinary ones, owing to the removal of a portion of one of the bows and placing the side light between three of the bows instead of only between a pair of such, as is the ordinary arrangement on buggy or carriage tops now in use.

By securing the side-light frame or casing not alone to the divided portions of the bow 0 but also to the adjacent bows O and 0 a very strong and durable connection is established between the side-light frame and of said bows being divided and having socured to it a side-light frame containing a transparent side light, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses. l

. GEORGE J. QUINSLER. GEORGE W. MONEAR.

Witnesses:

ALBAN AND EN, KARL A. ANDREN. 

